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Dear Colleagues,
We kindly invite you to submit your manuscripts to Rhetoric,
Technology, and (Dis)information minitrack, under the Information
Security and Privacy track of the 2019 AMCIS conference, which
will take place on 15-17 August, 2019 in Cancun, Mexico Submission
deadline is March 1, 2019. Following is a short description of the
minitrack.
Minitrack Chair: James Melton, Central Michigan University,
melto1jh@cmich.edu
This minitrack seeks to explore the relationship between rhetoric,
social media platforms, and disinformation. One of the ways to
deal with disinformation and to avoid exacerbating biases is to
have a general population trained in rhetoric. Because the
discipline of rhetoric studies the effects of persuasion on
audiences, it can help make those audiences more aware of
mechanisms of spreading disinformation. For example, recent papers
studied how to inoculate people against misinformation by asking
them to play roles such as “clickbait monger” seeking to get
clicks themselves or to act as “conspiracy theorist." It was found
that when made aware of the ease that misinformation could be
spread, people were more likely to be critical of it in the future
(Roozenbeek et al. 2018; van der Linden et al. 2017). Such
interventions demonstrate that rhetorical awareness of mechanisms
that enable the spread of disinformation can help combat bias
through awareness. We welcome papers at the intersection of
rhetoric, psychology, and information systems that attempt to
solve the problem of disinformation from an interdisciplinary
standpoint.
This mini-track welcomes all types of empirical and theoretical
contributions. Possible topics include but are not limited to:
- Political persuasion using technology
- Safeguards against "fake news"
- Technical solution(s) to identify and combat disinformation
- Impact of dis/misinformation on an individual, group, and
societal levels
- Changes in the very meaning of "facts"
- Interaction of disinformation and supposed "self-expertise"
(e.g., Dunning-Kruger Effect)
- Technical traps set up by bots to entice social media users, and
its behavioral impacts
- Frameworks to combat disinformation/misinformation
Link to the track/minitrak:
https://amcis2019.aisconferences.org/submissions/track-descriptions/#toggle-id-24
References:
Roozenbeek, J., & van der Linden, S. (2018). The fake news
game: Actively inoculating against the risk of misinformation.
Journal of Risk Research, DOI: 10.1080/13669877.2018.1443491
van der Linden, S., Maibach, E., Cook, J., Leiserowitz, A., &
Lewandowsky, S. (2017). Inoculating against
misinformation
<http://science.sciencemag.org/content/358/6367/1141.2>.
Science, 358(6367), 1141-1142.
Submission Instructions:
https://amcis2019.aisconferences.org/submissions/types-of-submissions/
Timeline and Submission Details:
* January 7, 2019: Manuscript submissions for AMCIS 2019 begin
* March 1, 2019: AMCIS manuscript submissions closes for authors
at 10:00am PST
* April 15, 2019:* Notification of initial decisions on Completed
and ERF paper submissions
* April 24, 2019: Camera-ready papers are due
We look forward to receiving your best works for the mini-track.
Feel free to contact us in case of any question.
Best,
Jim & Vishal
Vishal Shah
Assistant Professor | Business Information Systems Department
Grawn 336 | Central Michigan University
P: 989-774-4350 | E:
shah3v@cmich.edu
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